Why this word is great
ALGOCRACY — [Noun] A system of governance or decision-making dominated or controlled by algorithms and automated code. The term is a modern blend of 'algorithm' (from the name of the 9th-century mathematician al-Khwarizmi) and the combining form '-cracy' (from Greek '-kratia', meaning 'rule' or 'power', from 'kratos' 'strength, power'). Unlike "bureaucracy," which denotes the rule of human officials in a rigid hierarchy, or "technocracy," which signifies governance by a technical elite, algocracy implies the direct, often opaque, authority of non-human systems, minimizing human discretion. It is the silent adjudication of a loan application by an inscrutable scoring model, the imperceptible redirection of urban traffic flows, and the quiet suppression of a social media post flagged by a pattern-matching bot—a new sovereignty of pure process, where the ruler has no face, only function.